Symposium on the Future of Heliospheric Science: From Geotail and Beyond

Annonce transmise par Nicole Vilmer et Carine Briand (LESIA)

Dear SCOSTEP Colleagues,

This is a reminder of an international symposium "Symposium on the Future of Heliospheric Science: From Geotail and Beyond" to be held at Koshiba-Hall, University of Tokyo, between 28 -31 March 2023.

The Geotail satellite, launched in July 1992 from Florida, U. S. A., as a joint project between ISAS (now JAXA) and NASA, has been studying the structure and dynamics of the magnetotail and other key regions of the magnetosphere. It has achieved epoch-making results, including numerous discoveries in magnetospheric physics. After more than three decades in operation, a failure of the onboard data recorder that occurred at the end of June has considerably reduced the amount of data that can be received, while data from some onboard instruments are no longer available. Therefore, we decided to end Geotail's operation and the operation was terminated in the end of November, 2022.

The purpose of this symposium is to link the tremendous results of Geotail to the future by reviewing the achievements of Geotail to date and looking forward to the exploration of the inner heliosphere system that consists of several sub-systems, Geospace, planetary system, interplanetary space, and the Sun in the late 2020s. The exploration will further expand its area to the whole heliosphere beyond that time frame. The future exploration will also contribute to the space weather research/forecast that supports human activities in Geospace, Moon and other planets.

The symposium will be held in a hybrid format. In addition to invited talks, we plan to call for contributed papers (mainly poster papers). The call for contributed papers is scheduled to open on 16 January. We are also planning to publish the proceedings of the symposium as a special issue of T.B.D. journal.

Place:  Koshiba Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo
( [ https://www.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/map/map01.html ] )

Date:  March 28(Tuesday) to 31(Friday) 2023

Registration fee:  Free

Symposium Web (abstract submission site is also here):　 [ https://sprg.isas.jaxa.jp/Geotail30/ ]
    to be open on 16 January 2023

Important Dates:
    Registration: 16 January 2023 – 14 March 2023
    Abstract submission: 16 January 2023 – 15 February 2023
    Release of program: 1 March 2023

Tentative Sessions:
1.    Geotail Memorial Session
2.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science1: Plasma Universe and basic plasma processes
3.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science2: Geospace1
4.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science2: Geospace2
5.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science3: Heliospheric system science, Planetary magnetosphere, and beyond1
6.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science3: Heliospheric system science, Planetary magnetosphere, and beyond2
7.    Geotail to Future Heliospheric System Science3: Heliospheric system science, Planetary magnetosphere, and beyond3
 

SOC:
I. Shinohara, Y. Saito, M. Nakamura, G. Murakami (ISAS/JAXA)
H. Kojima, A. Matsuoka (Kyoto University)
Y. Miyoshi, K. Shiokawa (ISEE, Nagoya University)
M. Hoshino,　K. Seki, T. Terasawa (University of Tokyo)
T. Mukai, T. Nagai, S. Machida
G. Le (GSFC/NASA)
V. Angelopoulos (UCLA)
S. Petrinec (IMCO)
R. Nakamura (IWF/OAW)
P. Escoubet (ESA)

LOC：　
M. Hoshino,　K. Seki, T. Amano, S. Imada, S. Kasahara, K. Keika, M. Nishino (University of Tokyo)
I. Shinohara, Y. Saito (ISAS/JAXA)